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The 'romance' (can you even call it that?) with Azuki is the biggest fail of this series. At least they finally acknowledged it (somewhat) in this chapter with Mashiro thinking about 'the essence of youth'.

Good catch. Hope Azuki does play a significant part in the reunion and we see some sort of progress. At some point they'll have to go back to an arc about manga though PCPs been successful for so long now that it seems like it could just get an anime at any time, and it's becoming unreasonable that it hasn't. We've seen a lot of time spent on fleshing out the new and secondary characters, which is fine, but I'm anxious for some progress with the main protagonists. Things have really slowed down with them a lot lately. That or maybe spending some time on Azuki.

Most likely at the new year's party. Wish they had shown it. There are real-life editors in the manga, so why not real-life mangakas?

Mashiro finally realized he's wasted his youth. It's fine since he's having fun with work and doesn't regret anything, but I still can't help but feel he and Azuki's helpless romanticism made them miss out on a lot. Was it worth waiting that long? How much longer are they going to have to wait? There are tons of things they will never be able to experience now that Mashiro is a pro and can't afford to take vacations.

I don't think PCP is going to get canceled, unless those incidents escalate. Death Note stirred up controversy in its time, and nothing every happened to it. If anything, it made it ever more popular.

^Kids getting their own Death note, writing in it how they'd like their teachers, classmates, whatever to die. This actually led to the manga getting banned in China. Then again, it's China. I'm sure this phenomenon was present in Japan as well (a few kids in America did it too, and I'm sure the same goes for a lot of other countries) but I don't know how big of a deal it was in Japan though.

There was also that belgian murder case where the murderer left a note saying "I am Kira" written in lousy japanese near the victim (oh, seems like that case was finally solved! Took them three years). This was highly mediatized in Japan. It happened after the manga ended serialization though, so obviously it didn't affect it.

I think the authors of Bakuman are really using their experience from Death Note (that one real life murder incident based off of it) in a great way. PCP shouldn't really be affected as they're not the ones at fault here - the ones who broke in are.

... It'd probably take a change of editor-in-chief first. The problem isn't just finding a willing studio - it's for the owners (that is, Shonen Jump) to be willing to deal with the possible crap shower.